Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,198, Joshua Dunbar, Mass. Privateer

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Mass. Privateer
Dunbar, Joshua (colonel) N. 19,198 Lydia
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8357. New York
Report
Sydia Dunbar widow of John Dunbar who was a Private in the Revolution.
Date of death not on AB
Husband died in 1826.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 Dollars 10
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of May, 1848 and sent to
Wm. A. Ward. W. of Rep.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book Q 83 Vol. 9 Page

Josh Dunbar was born May 1763 Lydia Dunbar July th 15 1768 John Dunbar January th 2 1789 Betty Dunbar Dec th 4 1791 Josh Dunbar June th 15 1796 Ephraim Dunbar March th 7 1797 Jacob Dunbar Dec th 27 1799 Lydia Dunbar Dec th 7 1801 Joshua Dunbar Jan Oct th 31 1803 Stephen Dunbar Jan th 1 1805

THE NEW TESTAM NT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows" & other subsequent laws State of New York, County of Ontario ss On this 4 th day of June 1846 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the court in and for said county Lydia Dunbar of said county aged eighty years & upwards, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress July 7. 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Joshua Dunbar late a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, that her said husband was at that time a resident of Roxbury, County of Norfolk & State of Massachusetts, that her said husband enlisted for one year in 1778 either as a Soldier or as a Sailor, that this deponent cannot give a minute history of his service, but that his residence was at Roxbury & Bridgewater, that he probably served one or two years - She further declares that she was married to him the said Joshua Dunbar in the year 1787 Seventeen hundred and eighty seven, that her husband, the said Joshua Dunbar died in 1826 eighteen hundred and twenty six; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four, to wit, at the time above stated Sworn & subscribed before me, this 4 th day of June 1846. ?
Lydia Dunbar
E. Fitch perth Just Judge of Nelson Court I certify that the above named Lydia Dunbar is a respectable person that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court, that I am fully satisfied from the attached family record & the attached affidavits of Nathan Reed & John Tapp Reed & from the above declaration that the parties above named the said Joshua Dunbar & Lydia Dunbar, the present applicant for a pension, were husband & wife and were thus recognized some years previous to 1794 Seventeen hundred and ninety four, from the high reputation & character of the witnesses it cannot be disputed, but that the said parties were husband & wife some years previous to 1794 -
E. Fitch perth Just Judge of Nelson Court

State of New York } ss: Ontario County
I Alexander H. Hoover Clerk of the County of Ontario in said State do hereby certify that E. Fitch Smith Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate and before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day of the date of said Certificate and of said affidavit First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly appointed sworn and qualified to act as such First Judge and to take such affidavits and make such Certificate And that being well acquainted with his hand-writing I firmly believe his signature subscribed to said Certificate and to the jurat of said affidavit to be genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and have hereunto impressed the seal of the said County the sixth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty six.
A. H. H. Hoover Clerk.

I Ebinzer Inee, of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts on oath appeared and says that I was born in the town of Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts in the year 1771. In the following year, 1772, my parents as they have informed me, removed from Bridgewater to Cummington in said County of Hampshire. One Asa Dunbar removed from Bridgewater with my father or came to Cummington near that time and lived with him the most of the time for ten or twelve years. He bought a piece of land of my father on which he built a house and lived until about the year 1779 or 1780, when he sold, and removed to the western part of the State of New York. About the year 1783 or 1784, Joshua Dunbar who was a brother of Asa and Samuel Dunbar, another brother, came to Cummington, and the three brothers were employed by my father. I recollect these three brothers that they were partly of African blood. I should think as much as \frac{1}{4} . Their father also came from Bridgewater or vicinity, when he was then residing in Cummington, and was at my father's or soon after he left while Asa lived there. Asa resided in that part of Cummington which is now Plainfield and married I think, Elizabeth Odel of that town or Cummington . I am unable to state whom Joshua married, I was not so well acquainted with him as with Asa .

Asa. This Joshua Dunbar is the only person of that name that I ever knew or heard of living in Brumington or of ever being there. I distinctly remember him at a  the  time  of  his  death and I do not think it possible that any one of that name could have lived in Brumington without my knowledge.
Ebenezer Snell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plainfield Hampshire County ss
Be it known that on the sixteenth day of March 1848, before me, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Ebenezer Snell Esg above named who is personally known to me & is a person of truth and veracity and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true -
Geo. Vining Justice of the Peace
March 16 th 1848 I hereby certify that the alterations by interlining was all made before signing By Ebenezer Snell ———
Geo. Vining

I Caleb Easton of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts son of James & Sarah Easton upon testimony and say That my mother was the daughter of Sampson Dunbar who lived in the corner of Stoneham near the line of the town of Bridgewater that my mother had a brother Joshua Dunbar and as I have been told by my father, in the time of the American Revolutionary war he was in the Army; that he also went a Privateering in the time of the Revolutionary War. Before my memory my Uncle Joshua removed to the Northern and married there. My Uncle was about one quarter African blood. I have heard my father & mother speak of my Uncle Joshua being in the service frequently My father was in the service as I have heard him say & that he served in Col. Simeon Clegg Regt; but he died before the year 1832 viz 1830. There was never any other family which was part African blood by the name of Dunbar except my Grandfather that ever lived in or near the town of Stoneham or Bridgewater of whom I ever heard. The last I heard from my Uncle Joshua he lived in the State of New York my brother went on there to see him & saw him I think in the year 1818 Caleb Easton.
March 4th 1846.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss Be it known that on the fourth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty six personally appeared before me the subscriben a justice of the Peace for & within the County of Plymouth duly authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths Caleb Carlton the within affiant & who is personally known to me & who is a man of truth and veracity and made oath that the within by him subscribed is true
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written
Philo D. Ladd } Justice of the Peace

I Jacob Sabet of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being now in the seventy fifth year of my age as before testify and say that I married Susannah Dunbar daughter of Sampson Dunbar in the year 1782 that my wife had a half brother Joshua Dunbar much older than she was who was the son of the said Sampson Dunbar and who went to Nantucket some years ago and married there The said Joshua Dunbar was one quarter African blood, I should think his father Sampson who was the father to my wife was half blood African; James Easton of North Bridgewater married the own sister of the said Joshua, said Sampson Dunbar lives in the corner of Stoughton near the line of Bridgewater Jacob Sabet
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss Be it known that on the fourth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty six personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Plymouth duly authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths Jacob Sabet the above officer who is personally known to me & who is a man of truth & veracity & made oath that the above by him subscribed is true testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year above written Philo Doolittle Justice of the Peace

June 21, 1934
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Joshua Dunbar-W.19198
Mr. Charles A. Rice Route #1 Eagle, Idaho
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in regard to Joshua Dunbar, Revolutionary War soldier.
The record of only one Joshua Dunbar has been found on the Revolutionary War records of this office. His record is given herein as found in pension claim based upon his service in that war.
Joshua Dunbar was born in May, 1763. He was the son of Sampson Dunbar, of Stoughton(near Bridgewater), Massachusetts, who was about one-half African blood. Said Sampson had two or three wives, their names are not given.
While a resident of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Joshua Dunbar enlisted on January 1, 1778, and served one year as a private in Captain Joseph Cole's Company, Colonel John Jacobs' Massachusetts Regiment. It was stated also that he served as a cook on a privateer; no further details of this service given.
About 1791, he moved to Seneca, Ontario County, New York, where he died in 1826.
The soldier married in 1787, exact date not shown, in Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Lydia, born July 15, 1765, maiden name not given, of said Cummington.
Soldier's widow, Lydia, was allowed pension on her application executed June 4, 1846, while a resident of Ontario County, New York, at which time she stated: "I will further state that my husband and myself are, as I believe, one fourth part of African Race and that neither of us were ever slaves."

Children of Joshua and Lydia Dunbar:
John born January 2, 1789. Polly " December 4, 1791. Noah " June 15, 1795. Ephraim " March 7, 1797. Jacob " December 27, 1799. Lydia " " 9, 1801. Joshua, Jr. " October 31, 1803. Stephen " January 1, 1805.
Joshua Dunbar's half sister, Susanna, married Jacob Tarbot, in 1792. Jacob Tarbot lived in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in 1846, and was then in the seventy-sixth year of his age; it was not stated whether or not his wife was living then. Soldier's own sister, Sarah, married James Easton, a colored man, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. James Easton was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and died in 1830(no claim for pension on file). Some of their children were Joshua, James, Sylvanus and Caleb Easton. One James Easton was living in Canandaigua, New York in 1818. Caleb Easton, son of James, was living in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1846. Joshua Dunbar had brothers, Samuel and Asa. Asa moved to Cummington, Massachusetts, in 1772, and about 1792, moved to the western part of New York. Asa married Elizabeth Odel, of said Cummington. Samuel Dunbar also lived in Cummington, Massachusetts.
There are no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Lydia Dunbar, widow of Joshua Dunbar(W.19196), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:
Lydia Dunbar, widow of Joshua Dunbar, Certificate No.8351, issued May 12, 1848, rate $32.10 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843, Acts of March 3, 1843 and June 17, 1844, New York Agency(Albany).
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

Jan. 11 '99. J. T. Price, Chicago Ills.
1927-June 20- Hist. To Mrs. R. Ackerman - MMH
1930-May 2- Hist. To Adjutant General. See carbon copy of reply in Misc. File under Gen. C. H. Bridges. E.E.K. 1934. June 21- Hist. To Mr. Chas. A. Rice - E.E.K.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19198
Lydia Dunbar Widow of Joshua Dunbar Brig. Rev. War
Act: Mem. 3 rd 1873
Index:—Vol. 64 , Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 12878 Lydia Dunbar N.Y.
let to Mrs. W. B. Barnes July 9 '46 " " A. Gray Nov 9 '46 " " Same May 15 '47 to Same August 16 '47 let Mrs. B. H. Hall 17 July '48
act 7 July 1838

act 43 9453
No 12878
Sylvia Dunbar mother of Ashmun N
act 7 May 1838
Adm'd 9 mo 19 days / m
$32 40 p.m.
Mar 4 March 1836
Adm'd. act 3 March 1843
adm 17 June 1846
$32 40 p.m.
Mar 4 March 1843
Hen A. Hale
House & Nets

V N 12878 Lydia Dunbar NY
Rev. C. H. Gurnee July 9. 48. Ard Joy, Nov. 9, 1840. to Dime May 15. 47
Act 7 July 1835

10.431.
Reported
New York
Lydia Dunbar Widow of Joshua Dunbar who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the in 1824 of Ontario Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain — of the Regt commanded by — in the Revolution line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 32 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of May, 1848, and signed by A. Hall
Total amount, $ 160.50
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Vanpelt Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1. Page 153

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Boston
James Farnsworth
I received the within Letter by Mail enclosed in an envelope from Caleb Carlton last month I have since seen a number of Letters from Joshua & James Carlton & Caleb & Sylvanus Carlton written not far from the date of the within and from the State of New York this however is the only one in which mention is made of Joshua Dunbar Ohio
Uncle
Sept 7 1846
Philo Leach
184
Gahanna Ohio 4 May 26
Caleb and Sylvanus
Carlton
Boston
Mass
uncle

New York Canandaigua May 24 1818
I am with respect yours By this I conclude you will wish again to hear from us and our journey after we left Ithaca we set out to Seneca where we arrived on Tuesday after the date of the other letter and found uncle Humber and family Well we staid till Saturday and started to the above named town on Sunday where I hired out to farming for fifteen dollars per month. Goshua has a prospect of working at his trade in this place. Business is quiet. I think in this place it is a village and a Sary Hanson one the prospect is that our business will do well here as we selling for twenty York shillings a pease and gal quack. I have been informed that one Smith engaged a thousand dollars worth of but those that have bought his acres say they are not good. I shall work or both of us this season and in the fall I think we shall buy a couple of lots of land we can get it at $5.00 per acre we shall come down some time in the winter if we are well and want you to make as money travels as you came. Cheaps narrow acres as we can loom them cash I want you to write as soon as May the and all that has particularly taken Place we have only three days yet what rained till we got to uncle Humber's. A haze was from two to eight inches deep all the way from Ithaca the North river was risen to a great height so that it was all most impassable many places on the lakes the water so flat that we had to wade nearly knee deep in water

for nearly a quarter of a mile at a time but finally arrived at a place of staid about sixteen miles west of uncle Joshua Dumber in Canandagua the mother for four days has been good and very fine but none of the work sowing or planting is done at present a young man that has no family in this country can do well but an man that has a family cannot do much at present as wish you to write how the rye looks and how the season is in that part and what the days of the times is as do not write in particular what for you to write but you will no in general respect what to inform me about as I told you before I left although my best were met the most of the time sense I left home I think I never felt better in my life and full time and later enough to go to work at present the country all the mountains extend all most to the skies yet it is good the most of the way the country where we are and a hundred miles east of us is better and pleasant as you wish to see in the month I have nothing more to write at present but only write to you to give a full answer to all that's pressing as you will no as well without my writing the particular as matter. I write no more again at the rate of a week.
Yours James Easton of Eastern.
As if father comes into this country let him come with us & back next day the 24th and stop at the Maria Salina Tavern money and tavern is the best friend we found

Information in a Certificate of Freedom...
Ontario
Seneca - New York State
He enlisted in the year 1778 from the town of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk State of Massachusetts in the County of Cape...
Regiment, and served as until
We were married in the year 1787. He died in the year 1826. The only other facts which I recollect are as follows: He enlisted on board of a man of war for one year and served his full time, he was made Cook of the man of war, that he probably enlisted at Roxbury. We removed from Roxbury in the state of Massachusetts in 1791 and came to the town of Seneca the same year, at which place my husband resided until his death, and where I now reside. We were married in Roxbury and were published in church, and I have no doubt it is recorded, if it is not, there is now living in this town a respectable man by the name of John Taft Reed, who knew my husband before our marriage, and until the death of my said husband. According to my best recollection he must have enlisted in the year 1779 or 1780 - as he was either 16 - or 17 years of age at the time of his enlistment. I will further state that my husband and my self are as I believe one fourth part of African Race and that neither of us were ever Slaves, and perhaps this circumstance may assist in identifying him.
I am now 79 years old and my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the matter required. I have improved that for of Civil Seneca County, so as in the premises as an Attorney. Witness my hand this 26 day of March A.D. 1844. Signed in my presence.
Lyddy L. Dunbar
George Howard Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March, 31, 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Joshua Dunbar of Bridgewater, is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt Joseph Colis Company, in Col John Jacobs' regt, engaged for One year, from January 1, 1778, as a private from March 15 to December 31 1778, including allowance of 40 miles travel, 9 Months & 19 days.
Not found upon Naval Rolls Not upon rolls of Officers in Col Simion Gary's regt.
Brookline Plymouth 1778. 79
[Large decorative flourish signature]

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Foster;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Deborah Lile of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts now in the eighty fourth year of my age desire testify and say that I was born and always lived in North Bridgewater which was formerly a part of Bridgewater that before the American Revolution I knew Joshua Dunbar a colored man part African Blood, he then lived in what is now North Bridgewater with Capt Lebedee Snell I well recollect of some difference between Capt Snell & Capt Joseph Cole who also lived in North Bridgewater respecting said Joshua Dunbar going into the Army Capt Snell liked the man Dunbar, & blamed Capt Joseph Cole for inducing Dunbar to go into Army. Dunbar left Bridgewater before he was married he went Westward I have often heard Abbie Easton who is the stepson of said Joshua Dunbar speak of his Uncle Joshua's sons I have often heard that he served in the Army Deborah his Lile mark Mrs Chloe Field

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss. Be it known that on the fourteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty seven Personally appeared Bethuel Dield the within affiant who is a man of truth & veracity and personally known to me to be the person described in and who executed the within instrument for the county of Plymouth and authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths and made oath that the within by him subscribed is true
Philo Leach justice of the Peace

I Abigail Snell of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachu- setts now in the fifty eighth year of my age do hereby testify and say that I am the daughter of Capt. Job Snell formerly who lived in said North Bridgewater. I remember Sophron Dunbar who was part African blood I have often heard my Father & mother speak of Job Dunbar who lived with my Father & remember many circumstances in relation to him I have often heard my Father speak of Job Dunbar living with him I have heard it often said that Job Dunbar went to Cummington with my Uncle Ebenezer Snell who moved to Cummington I was well acquainted with Mrs Sarah Easton the wife of James Easton & the mother of Caleb Easton she was the sister of Job Dunbar & part African blood
Abigail Snell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County f Be it known that on the fourteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty seven Personally appeared Abigail Duell the within affiant who is a woman of truth & veracity Before me the subscriben a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Plymouth duly author- ized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths and made solemn oaths that the within by her subscriben is true -
Philo Leach Judge of the Peace

I Joseph Sylvester of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts now in the eighty second year of my age and a Pensioner of the United States do here testify and say that I know Sampson Duncan a colour man who lives in a corner of Strongton near the town of Bridgewater. & I never knew or heard of any other family colour family by the name of Duncan who ever lived in Bridgewater or vicinity, or any other place except the above named Sampson & family. Joseph Sylvester
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. Be it known that on the fourth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty six personally appeared Joseph Sylvester Esquire who is personally known to me and a man of truth and veracity before me the subcribe justice of the Peace duly authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths and made oath that the above by him subscribed is true. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written
Philos Leach Justice of the Peace

Bridgewater Mass. July 6 th 1847
Sir
I understand that Bethuel Field, Caleb Easton, Abigail Snell, daughter of Zebulon Snell, and Abigail Howard, widow of Col. Caleb Howard, have testified to certain facts in relation to the claim of Lydia Dunbar, widow of Fortune Dunbar, for a pension on account of services rendered by her husband, the said Fortune Dunbar, during the Revolutionary war.
The said affiants are residents of North Bridgewater, about eight or ten miles distant from this place and I have no personal acquaintance with them but from information obtained from those who are personally acquainted with them & have been so for many years, and in whose statements the most implicit confidence may be placed I am entirely satisfied that each and every of said affiants is a person of truth & veracity, in whose testimony the most entire reliance may be had.
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Very Respectfully Your obt. Servt Stearns Hale
Hon J. L. Edwards. Comm: of Tens ions -

J. S. Edwards Esq Com t Peninsular

Washington D.C. Jan y 8. 1848
Sir
Enclosed I have the honor to hand you a copy of the letter shewn you this morning
The other case to which I alluded was that of Lydia Lyon, for a duplicate Pension Certificate. The papers were sent to me by Peter H. Peirce - and were left at your office on the 7 th Dec r last -
Will you have the goodness to inform me whether they have been examined & if so, whether the Certificate has been forwarded to Mr Peirce -
Respectfully Yours
William Hale
J. S. Edwards Esq Comm r Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston March 29 th 1845
I hereby Certify , That at the date of the annexed attestation George Siming was a justice of the Peace for the County of Hampshire,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. The attestation is in due form.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. Chapman
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Ovid April 24. '47
Sir
I enclose 4 affidavits, they are intended in support of the case of Lydia Dunbar mentioned in yours of the 9 th Nov last, of the proof I say nothing, I enclose it in good faith, knowing nothing against it, but submit it, as I always have intended to, in all cases, for you to say whether it is all correct, not asking for it any thing more than it merits
Respectfully Your Ob st Servt Abad Lays
Hon J L Edwards Comm d of Pensions Washington DC

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, March 31 st 1848.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is no evidence of service of any one of the name of Joshua Dunbar from Roxbury — The name appears only once upon roll of Capt Joseph Coles Company in Col Jacobs's Regt for the year 1778.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. H. Calhoun, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Ovid N.Y. Oct 26-46
Sir
I enclose proof in the case of Lydia Dunbar, who applied from N. York, under the act of 1838 - I enclose her Amended declaration, with an old letter written by her late husband relating May 1818 where in they mention the name of Dunbar, the late husband of Lydia, you will find also 2 affidavits, shewing the former residence of Joshua Dunbar &c &c - I judge that you will pronounce the proof entirely satisfactory to establish her case
Respectfully Your Ob d Servt Isaac L. Loyo
Hon d L Edward, Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C

Ovid N.Y. Nov 18 th 97
Sir I enclose in good faith, believing them to be genuine 2 affidavits in the case of Lydia Dunbar of New York Jan'y 1838
Respectfully Your Ob d Serv t Abad Sou
Hon J L Edwards Comm te on Pensions Washington D.C.

Qvid July 26. '47
Dear Sir
I inclose a letter addressed to you, which I have just rec d in the case of Lydia Dunbar, whose application from New York is on file, under law of 1838
Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t Brad Joy
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm ee of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

You will recollect that before you left home, I spoke to you about the claim of the widow of Joshua Dunbar, who was one fourth African blood - I will now give you a brief outline of the case - The widow lives in Seneca Co. New York - Joshua Dunbar was the son of Sampson Dunbar, who lived in Houghton, near North Bridgewater - Old Sampson had two or three wives, and among his children there was Joshua , and Sarah who married James Easton, or Eason, of North Bridgewater - Joshua, when young lived with Capt. Zebedee Snell in N. Bridgewater, and was living there in the time of the war - Capt Snell and Capt. Cole lived near neighbors, and old Mr. Pierce told me he could well recollect a difficulty between Capt. Snell & Cole, because Cole induced Joshua to enlist and serve with him in the Army - Joshua went

out a privateering in the time of the war and finally removed, with, I think, Ebenezer Snell to Cumberland in Mass.
He married in Cumberland and then removed to the State of N. York where he lived and died and left a widow - These facts I have gathered from the old people in North Bridgewater and also where - . . .
There was never any other family which were part, or wholly African blood by the name of Dunbar, that I could ever find in this region. I have no more doubt that the Joshua Dunbar who lived in Seneca, or that vicinity was the same & identical folk who served under Capt Joseph Cole, than I have of any thing which I have not seen with my own eyes, from the facts I have been able to gather. I have no interest in the scraps of the claim of his widow, but as I am fully convinced that she is entitled to it, if she is his widow. I will thank you to

call upon Mr. Edwards and state to him these facts, as he may think it is a case of fraud or got up to make money -
Very Resp d &c
Philo Leach
7. Hon. Artemas Hale Washington City
Washington D.C. Jan y 8 th 1848
Sir
The foregoing is a copy of the letter from Mr. Leach to me which I shew you today - I know nothing in relation to the case, ex- cept what is there stated -
I am well acquainted with Mr. Leach - He is a gentleman of undoubted verac- ity, has been a Selectman & Overseer of the Poor in the town of Bridgewater, for many years past, and has had much to do in looking up the genealogy of old people -
Respectfully Yours
Artemas Hale
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm ee on Pensions

May 17 th Add d & returning in the case of the widow of Joshua Dunning
colony
Am A. Hall H. Ray

No. Rep! May 6. 1848
Sir
Hearwith I hand you the deposition of Ebenezer Snell, and the Certificate of the Secretary of the Com te of Mass. which with the evidence now on file, will I trust remove all doubt as to the fact that Joshua Dunbar, the husband of the applicant, was the identical Joshua Dunbar, who served in the Revolution-ary Army from Bridgewater - notwithstanding she stated in her declaration that he was from Roxbury - This error in her declaration is accounted for by the fact that she never lived in that part of the country, she having removed to Summington before her marriage. The Certificate of the Secretary shows that there is no evidence of any person of that name being in the service from Roxbury -
I think a careful examination of all the evidence will remove all doubts, and that a certificate may be granted -
Resp d Artemas Hove
J. L. Edwards Esq

I Caleb Easton of South Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massa- chusetts Depose Testify and say that I am the Son of James & Sarah Easton now deceased who formerly lived in the Town of South Bridgewater aforesaid. which Town was a part of the Town of Bridge- water in the time of the American Revolution. My mother was the daughter of Sampson Dunbar who formerly lived in the corner of Stoughton near the Town of Bridgewater. My mother had a brother by the name of Joshua Dunbar she was of African blood. I have heard my mother say that her brother Joshua went on a Privateering in the time of the Revolution that he was cook on board. My uncle was a transient man when young as I have been told living in Stoughton Bridgewater Milton & Roxbury he went to the Western part of the State of Massachusetts when young & as I have been told married there I think in the Town of Cumberland he afterwards removed to the State of New York

into the Town or County of Seneca My brothers Joshua Easton & James Eaton in the year 1818 went went to Seneca to see him. He was then living in Seneca with his wife and family. I have heard my father say that my Uncle Joshua was in the Service in the Revolutionary War. My father was in the war in Col. Leary's Regt. but died in 1830. I never knew or heard of any other man who was part African blood by the name of Joshua Dunbar except my Uncle. either in Bridgewater Stockton Milton, or Roxbury in which Towns I am, & my father was well acquainted. My Grandfathers family was the only family by the name of Dunbar that I ever knew or heard of who were part African Blood. Caleb Easton
North Bridgewater Aug t 28 th 1866
In 1818 my brother Joshua & James wrote to me & my brother Sylvanus & directed that same to Boston which letter I sent by mail to Philo Leach of Bridgewater last March Caleb Easton

I Bethuel Field of North Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts now in the eighty fourth year of my age as before testify and say that before the American Revolution I knew Joshua Dunbar the son of Sampson Dunbar he then lived in North Bridgewater that now is, which was then part of Plymouth. I knew Capt Joseph Cole of North Bridgewater who was in the Army for his Dunbar removed when young to the Northward. He was part of Mucan blood. I was never in the river, but my brothers were. Joshua Dunbar was brother to James Easton wife. He was not married when he left here.
North Bridgewater Augt 28 1846 Bethuel Field

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
Be it Known that on the twenty eighth day of August in the year one thousand eight Hundred & Sixty six Personally appeared Caleb Easton & Bethuel Field the within affiants who are men of truth and veracity; Before me the Subscriber. On further of the Peace within & for the County of Plymouth authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths and solemnly made oath that the within affidavits by him sworn revocally subscribed and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written
Phil. Leach Just of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston September 26 th 1846
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Philo Seacht was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sleeper,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York
Ontario County S.S. Lydia Dunbar whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to Law, deposes and says, and she makes this amended Declaration to explain the former one, that she became acquainted with her late husband Joshua Dunbar sometime after the close of the war of the Revolution, and that all she knows of his service is from his own history and from others that she will recollects of her said husband often stating that he resided some part of the Revolution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, that she may have heard him state that he enlisted from there, but the length of time and the little consequence that she then considered it to bear these things in mind makes it difficult for her to particularize, the most she can recollect is, that he was part of the time during the Revolution from or in Bridgewater, and that he may have enlisted from there.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 13 th day of November 1817
Chas. J. Folger
her mark Lydia X Dunbar
a justice of the peace in the town of Seneca, in Ontario County
Please impress your seal & note your certificate upon this sheet, & return it to me at P'keepsie N.Y. in return 25 ct. Paid for

State of New York Ontario County Clerks Office } Canandaigua 16 Oct 1847
I hereby certify that Charles J. Holger Esquire before whom the within affidavit & the one on the next page were subscribed and sworn to as the time of taking the two affidavits a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected sworn and authorized to act as such. Also that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and readily believe both signatures to said certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of said County at the time and place to this certificate above written.
A. W. No. Wood Clerk of Ontario County

State of New York
County of Ontario ss Allen Chase whom I certify is a respectable person being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is sixty six years of age that in the year 1806, he resided in the family and worked for Joshua Dunbar the late husband of Lydia Dunbar at present an applicant for a pension from the above named County, that this deponent well recollects of talking with the said Joshua Dunbar in 1806 about his Revolutionary Service, that this deponent distinctly recollects of hearing the said Joshua Dunbar state that he enlisted from the town of Bridgewater Massachusetts that this deponent from 1806, up to 1826, when the said Joshua Dunbar died, resided with him or near him, and that he at various times heard him state of his having enlisted from Bridgewater, of this fact this deponent cannot be mistaken —
Subscribed and sworn before me this 13 th day of November 1847
Allen Chase
Chas. J. Soper
a justice of the peace in the town of Canaan, Ontario County

I Oliver Snell of North Brunsquato in the County of Plymouth upon testimony (and say that I am the Son of Oliver Snell late of North Brunsquato deceased & the Grand son of Capt. Richard Snell I have often heard my Father speak of Joshua Dunsbee who lived at my Grandfathers when my Father was young I have heard the Mr Easton speak of going to see their relatives in York State Joshua Dunsbee was part African blood I recollect of seeing Joshua Dunsbee when he was Sampson Dunsbee. He was very aged when I saw him He lived in Stoneham James Easton wife now one of the sisters of Joshua Dunsbee Oliver Snell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss Be it known that on the fourteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty seven Personally appeared Oliver Snell the within affiant who is a man of truth and veracity, Before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace within & for the county of Plymouth duly authorized by the Laws of the State to administer oaths & made oath that the within by him subscribed is true
Phil. Leach Just of the Peace

I Abigail Howard of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, widow of Caleb Howard Esq. late of said North Bridgewater, deceased: being seventy-four years of age, do testify & say, that I remember Joshua Dunbar who lived with my Uncle, Lebedee Snell, in that part of Bridgewater which is now called North Bridgewater: the said Joshua was part African; he was son of Sampson Dunbar who I remember very well. Joshua Dunbar, I believe, lived with my Uncle Lebedee, till my Uncle Ebenezer Snell moved from Bridgewater to Cummington. When my Uncle Ebenezer Snell moved to Cummington, Joshua Dunbar went with him. Joshua Dunbar afterwards came to Bridgewater to visit his friends, & called at my Father's. I well remember it. He soon after, returned to Cummington as I understood. I well knew the sister of said Joshua Dunbar, who married James Easton, a colored man of this Town & died some years ago leaving several sons & Daughters. I should think I was seven or eight years old when Joshua Dunbar aforesaid visited this place. My Uncle Ebenezer Snell was Representative in the General Court of this State from the town of Cummington for several years & used to be at my Father's often, during those years, and I well remember he used to speak of Joshua Dunbar. My Father & my Grandmother used to enquire of my Uncle Ebenezer about Joshua Dunbar, every time he came to our house.
Abigail Howard

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County } ss.
April 15 th 1847. Then the before named
Abigail Howard, who is a person of truth & veracity, personally appeared and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit,
Before me, Jesse Perkins } justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 19 th 1816.
I hereby Certify , That at the dates of the annexed attestations Jesse Perkins and Phil. Leach were Justices of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston March 16 th 1846
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Philo Seach was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York, Ontario - County of Ontario ss Lydia D. bar of said County being duly sworn deposes & says that she is the iden- tical person who made application for a pension as the widow of Joshua Dunbar from said county, that this deponent formed her first acquaintance with her said husband after the war of the Revolution, that she was a resident of Cummington Hampshire Coun- ty Massachusetts, and that soon after the war of the Revolution her said husband became a resident of Cummington, which was her first acquaintance with him, that from her first acquaintance with her said husband the said Joshua Dunbar, she learned from him that his place of residence dur- ing the war of the revolution was in Bridgewater Plymouth County Massachusetts, and that he had served in the war of the revolution, that her said husband's family his father & brothers were residents of Bridgewater dur- the war of the Revolution, (Plymouth County Massachusetts that her said husband was part african blood Subscribed & sworn before me this 25 day of September 1846
Lydia X Dunbar
I certify that the above named Lydia Dunbar is a respectable person, that I have full confidence in the deposition above subscribed by her
Edward J. D.

State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office Is I hereby certify that George Caynard Esquire whose name is subscribed to both the within Certificates and before whom the affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected sworn and authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to both of said Certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of said County this 29th Sept. 1834
Reuben Murray Jr Deputy Clerk.

State of New York County of Ontario ss Nathan Reed of said county aged Seventy nine years, being duly sworn by me, deposes & says that he was personally acquainted with Joshua Dunbar & his wife Lydia the present applicant for a pension previous to their marriage, that this deponent was himself married in the year 1787 Seventeen hundred and eighty seven, and that the said parties Joshua Dunbar & Lydia, the present applicant for a pension were married the same year that this deponent was married, & that the said Joshua Dunbar & his wife Lydia, removed into the county of Ontario, in the year 1791 or 1792 that they were then or at that time husband and wife & that they had one child at that time, that the said Joshua Dunbar died in 1826, leaving his widow the present applicant Lydia Dunbar, who still remains a widow that the said parties were from Cummington Massachusetts, that the said Joshua Dunbar, had the reputation of having served in the war of the Revolution This 6 day of June 1846
Edward Justice of Peace I certify that the above named Nathan Reed Esq is a highly respecta- ble person & is entitled to full credit
Nathan Reed E. Hitchcock Full judge of Ulster County
State of New York County of Ontario ss John Tapp Reed of said county aged Seventy seven years after being duly sworn before me deposes & says that he was personally acquainted in Cummington Mass with Joshua Dunbar & Lydia his wife, the present widow Lydia Dunbar before their marriage, that this deponent was himself married in the year 1791 Seventeen hundred & ninety one, & that the said Joshua Dunbar & Lydia the present widow & present applicant were married three or four years before this deponent, and that the said parties Joshua Dunbar & Lydia his wife removed from Cummington Mass. as husband & wife & then had one child in 1791 into the said county of Ontario, that the said parties had one child as husband & wife, at the time this deponent was married which was as above stated, that the said Joshua Dunbar died in 1826. leaving his widow Lydia Dunbar the present applicant for a pension, who still remains a widow, that the said Joshua Dunbar, had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution Subscribed & sworn before me this 6 day of June 1846
John T. Reed Edward Justice of Peace in the County of Ontario I certify that the above named John T. Reed Esq is a highly respectable per- son & entitled to full credit
E. Hitchcock Full judge of Ulster County

State of New York Ontario County
ss: I Alexander H. Howell Clerk of the said
County do hereby certify that on the fourth day of June eighteen hundred and forty six George Cavendish Esq was before whom the within two affidavits were taken was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected qualified and sworn to act as such Justice and to take such affidavits And also that E. Fitch Smith Esq by whom the two within certificates are signed was the First Judge of said County duly appointed sworn and qualified to act as such Judge and to make such certificates And further that being well acquainted with the handwriting of the said George Cavendish and of the said E. Fitch Smith I verily believe their respective signatures subscribed to the facts of the within affidavits and the within certificates to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and hereunto impressed the seal of said County this 26 27th day of June in Thousand eight hundred and forty six - Alex. H. Howell Clerk.
12578
No 12578
Sydia (Dunbar) widow of Joseph N.Y.
6 ct 7 July 1838
Married 19/26 husband dead

601 Roobery Chicago Ill 12/2/98 Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. Dear Sir—
Mrs Lydia Dunbar (maiden name Lydia Odele) draw a pension as the widow of Joshua Dunbar one of the soldiers of the Revolution. Can you advise me where I can find the record of Joshua

Dunbar's services.
Joshua Dunbar was a resident of Sametble County Mass.
Yours truly J. S. Mear

Blue Earth Minn June 22-27
U.S Bureau of Pensions Department of the Interior Washington D.C.
Will you kindly send me a copy of widows pension. This is what I need to fill out my application for member- ship in N.S.D.A.R. Mrs Lydia Dunbar widow of Joshua Dunbar Sr. a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Enlisted at Ridgefield Mass. and

served as clerk on man of war. his widow applied for and received a pension after his death.
I must have her date of birth and marriage to complete my claims.
Respectfully yours Mrs Ada R. Ackerman 1016 E-5 th St Blue Earth - Minn

Route #1, Eagle, Idaho March 28, 1934
Veterans Administration Pension Department, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am writing you again about the record of my Grandfather's Grandfather, whom my Grandfather said was a Revolutionary Soldier. His name was Joshua Dunbar . He was born about 1762 and died in 1826. My grandfather said this man was Privateersman during the Revolutionary War in the Service of the American colonists. He was too proud to ask for a pension as the Government was too poor at that time. After his death, his widow Lydia (Nee Odle) Dunbar applied for and received a pension until her death in 1848. I am quite certain that this Joshua Dunbar was a white man. They came from Massachusetts shortly after the Revolutionary War and settled near Seneca Lake section of New York state. I wish to thank you for the information you have hitherto given me and hope we can get this other record straightened out.
very respectfully,
Charles A. Rice

June 30, 1927
Mrs. Ada R. Ackerman 1016 East Fifth St., Blue Earth, Minn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 18198 it appears that Joshua Dunbar was born in May 1763. He was the son of Sampson Dunbar of Stoughton(near Bridgewater), Massachusetts who was about one half African blood. Said Sampson had two or three wives, their names not given.
Said Joshua Dunbar while a resident of Bridgewater, Massachusetts enlisted January 1, 1778 and served one year as a private in Captain Joseph Cole's Company, Colonel John Jacobs' Massachusetts Regiment. It is also stated that he served on a privateer as cook. About 1791 he moved to Seneca, Ontario County, New York where he died in 1826.
Soldier married in 1787, day and month not stated, in Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Lydia born July 15, 1765, maiden name not given, of said Cummington. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 4, 1846 while a resident of Ontario County, New York, at which time she stated: "I will

further state that my husband and myself are as I believe one fourth part of African Race and that neither of us were ever slaves".
Their children were:
John born January 2, 1789. Polly " December 4, 1791. Noah June December 15, 1795. Ephraim " March 7, 1797. Jacob " December 27, 1799. Lydia " December 9, 1801. Joshua, Jr., " October 31, 1803. Stephen " January 1, 1805.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
soldier's half sister Susannah mar. Jacob Sanbat. soldier's sister Sarah (of part African blood) mar. James Easton a colored man of Bridgeport Mass. who was also a Rev. War sol. & d. in 1830. & some of their children were Caleb Easton, Joshua, James - Sylvanus. Soldier's had bro. Samuel & Asa. Asa mar. Elizabeth Odel of Cummington Mass.
No claim for pension for James Easton colored - only James Easton was a Colonel (no papers) and no claim for pension for Asa Dunbar.